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Erratum to: Pneumococcal lower respiratory tract infections in adults: an observational case–control study in primary care in Belgium
BMC Family Practice volume 17, Article number: 25 (2016)
Due to a change in reagent affecting the performance of the Urinary Antigen Detection (UAD) assay, the positivity cut-off values of the assay had to be revised. A number of epidemiological studies have been affected by this change, including the original version of this article [1].
All samples of the study have been reanalysed and the impact on the study results can be found in the attached Excel sheet (Additional file 1):
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Due to change in cut-off for serotype 5 and 14, there is one case of serotype 5 and of serotype 14 less.
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The revision of the analysis showed 1 additional positive results for serotype 18C and for serotype 23 F
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Overall the total number of positive UAD results has not changed.
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Flamaing J, De Backer W, Van Laethem Y, Heijmans S, Mignon A. Pneumococcal lower respiratory tract infections in adults: an observational case–control study in primary care in Belgium. BMC Fam Pract. 2015;16:66.
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The online version of the original article can be found under doi:10.1186/s12875-015-0282-1.
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Changes in UAD results. (XLSX 12 kb)
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Flamaing, J., De Backer, W., Van Laethem, Y. et al. Erratum to: Pneumococcal lower respiratory tract infections in adults: an observational case–control study in primary care in Belgium. BMC Fam Pract 17, 25 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12875-016-0420-4
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